Aaron Harang (9-8, 3.76) vs. Clayton Richard (12-12, 3.74).
The Dodgers are all tied up in this three-game series with the Padres, going into tonight's rubber match; and, we face a pitcher with an equal W-L record, while throwing up (literally?) an (almost) equal W-L record pitcher of our own. Yep, it's all Even Stevens around these parts.
Except, just like Shia LaBeouf's career, a closer look shows that we're careening into our death spiral pretty quickly here. First, a walk off win (our second in a row) made us a serial killer. This gave way to a a series of maddeningly bad plays (in last night's game) which prolonged the agony. Wedged in between those bad plays was some pretty piss-poor veteran performances, I might add.
So will tonight be a final flop, still 4.5 GB the Giants with only 25 to go (Cardinals lost today, putting us 1.0 GB the WC going into tonight's game)? Well, I suppose it could be worse. But let's finish this homestand with a win, okay guys?
(And enjoy your Hello Kitty tote bag, peeps!)
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My feelings about this horrific/glorious season remain delightful unresolved.
^delightfully
^^ unresolved indeed
Anybody going to the yard tonight? I'll be there somewhere in the field section, the seats with the shitty wi-fi
Will the GT also double as an NFL smack thread?
SMACK
Hey, it's a rematch of our first loss of the season!
Oh dear god, the NFL is back?
(Don't make eye contact)
Thanks for everything, Chad.
@ Sax re. GT write-up: "... we face a pitcher with an equal W-L record, throwing up ..."
Some time during the the mid-'70s, Padre announcer Jerry Coleman pointed out that reliever Rich Folkers was doing just that in the Pads' pen.
@ Orel at 5:47 p.m.
Sure. What'd I do?
Whoops, forgot the word "while" there. Edited.
epale everyone!
i know there will be a way that the Dodgers go into postseason. Besides, I wanna go to a postseason game at the Ravine THIS YEAR :D
You're on the 60-day DL, Chad! And if you get Tommy John surgery, you won't be back for 2013.
WIN FOR KARINA
Rob Ryan and Journey: a match made in heaven.
@ Orel at 6:19 p.m.
I am? How'd I get there -- hoisting a few too many martinis each night?
Weird. Chad was more smiley and lively in his interview about his shutdown than I've ever seen him.
Dallas has the worst o-line ever.
PACO!!!!
Carl's Jr.'s new Memphis Barbecue Boner, uh, er, Burger.
Greetings, Pussy
I need a platelet-rich margarita injection.
What do we have to do to get a scoreless first inning here?
Cabrera leadoff single.
T'row strikes, dummeh!
Harang off to another great start.
@Orel 7:09 Not start Harang?
Did Hello Kitty curse the mound?
Would have said that before Kershaw's first yesterday, Nomo.
I really, really don't want SoSG Fest to end up being a funeral for the season.
2-RBI triple for Headley.
WTF, Kemp?
For a catcher, A.J. Eliis isn't great at catching balls.
Also, WTF, Hanley?
Quentin suffers from the same fatface affliction as Berkman.
miss Kuroda...
What is with us and the first inning?
Harang no pitch good.
I can't even muster up any anger at the opposing team scoring in the first.
Cruz almost pulled off a DP that would have given him legend status.
RBI dribbler. What a joke.
I think you can muster anger now.
You guys.
The defensive circus is embarrassing.
miss my son tonight, too
And to think this is supposed to be the relaxing part of my day.
No strikes + No defense = WORLD SERIES!
Yeah, I'm not going to watch this.
Let me know if anything important happens.
Harang can go hose himself.
Snakes up 1-0, but I can't get excited at the moment.
We Can make up a three run defecit. Unfortunately the pads will have scored 6 by then.
As I recall, Clayton Richard owns us.
The Pads have been one of the better teams in the NL West post ASB.
Padres: bloop, dribble, three runs.
Dodgers: HIT HARD! Caught at track.
Victorino singles.
Nic, that's true enough.
What I mean to say is that we're the ones trailing SF, Atlanta, and St. Louis. We can't just hope for them all to lose if we're going to have a chance.
Shit, Kemp is seriously wrong.
WE SUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
Yeah, While the Dodgers are in striking distance to make the playoffs they really haven't played well since, when June?
I feel like the team didn't get the memo that we are in a pennant race here
The Dodgers have no heart!
Maybe we should just shut the whole team down for TJ surgery.
Funny, if they played this season in reverse order and we had this record, I'd unequivocally claim it to be a success. It's the "improve-roster-play-worse" dynamic that gets me all riled up.
Stupid Romo is lighting up my fantasy team.
I can't tell you how good it feels not to play Fantasy Football.
@Stubbs - But without a team, you can't come up with a team name like Oberon Jaworski or some shit.
Sure I can, Marla! About the same number of people will be amused by the reference, too!
I hope Cabrera breaks a leg with all that running toward second.
Harang is terrible. Just throwing it up there.
End 2. Harang at 900 pitches.
Code of Hammurabi Gould.
Hey, that's a good one, I'm keeping that.
I get more upset when we lose Kershaw's starts. I guess I just expect to lose Harrang games.
What is this no-out, run-scoring shit?
The Harang Games — good book?
Death of a Salesmanning?
It took you five minutes to come up with that?
Hey, I'm just getting warmed up here!
I imagined you would be in your basement library, combing through obscure texts from Late Antiquity.
Killjoy.
Bill Shaikin @BillShaikin
Luis Cruz with RISP and 0 or 1 out: .600; with RISP and 2 out: .148. #dodgers
Harang bunts into a DP. Beautiful.
@Marla
What, like the Dead Sea Sproles, or something?
Timaeus Tebow
Harang will never go 1-2-3 again.
single
single
single
SCORE
Yeah!
Did Kemp start using Loney's bats when he left?
IBB Hanley to get the lefty to face Andre? What could go wrong?!
IBBing the bases loaded never works. Except when the other team does it to us.
ARGH
Stupid Shaikin.
See? It worked.
I think Kemp needs to sit out the next one. An extended rest might help, looks awful out there.
AZ 2, SF 0, top 5
We should start a REST KEMP campaign.
Still no 1-2-3, but Harang has three scoreless innings in a row. CELEBRATE
HOLIDAY
Man, the Dodgers can really clear a GT out.
This is the most depressing game ever.
UNFREE MATT KEMP.
Victorio saves two runs.
UNFREE MATT KEMP!
Nice catch by Shane...but he looks pretty slow out there
Victorino bounces it off Richard's glove for a single.
AGon 2-run HR right here, I'm calling it
Well, he was upgrading Abreu, so the bar on mobility is not awfully high.
Don't get picked off Shane. Or my prediction can't come true
A-Gon singles. DON'T PRESS, MATTY
Speaking of mobility at the bar, SoSG Fest III is this weekend!!!
That was the weakest HR swing ever, AGon.
I'll take it
MAKE ME BELIEVE, KEMP!
Barely misses the DP.
Watch us not score, yet again.
Ugh.
If hanley GIDPs I'm running into my backyard naked
TIE GAME
Hanley the Manly!!
Hanley keeps me from disrobing!!!
Sax's neighbors are safe!
3-0 AZ, top 7
Dallas beats NYG
Cruz is up, again with two out.
I can't even remember the last time we knocked a pitcher out before the 5th.
Oh really, a pitching change for Luis Cruz?
Can't believe Harang lasted longer than Richard.
One pitch, one out.
Well, that was anti-climactic.
We are rally-phobic, but I won't throw it back.
I am not convinced we want to win this game.
AZ 4, SF 0, top 7
Is hits per runs scored a stat? We have to be last in that.
Kennedy in for Cruz. Hmmm.
AZ 6, SF 0, top 7
Nick Cafardo @nickcafardo
James Loney may not be as good as Adrian Gionzalez, but not far behind. Excellent diving play on Ackley's inning-ending grounder in 6th.
Pfft. Nick Cafardo. More like Nick Ca-fart-o! Amiright!?
Tolleson with the 1-2-3!
Frankly, I'd be happy if James turned out OK. It just wasn't going to happen here.
In any other sense than defense, though, Cafardo has lost his damn mind.
Why does it feel like we're losing?
I'm sure Loney will have a few good months then revert to suck. Remember JMart's first half season with the Yanks?
A lot of media praise being heaped on Loney lately, most of which I feel is more to undermine the trade than anything else.
Scutaro breaks up the no hitter, of course.
That would be awesome if Loney gets a long-term deal out of this.
Adam Kennedy
Still Making Career Off Of 3-HR Postseason Game A Decade Ago
AMARISTA
AMARISTA
AMARISTA
AMARISTA
AMARISTA
AMARISTA
AMARISTA
AMARISTA
OH OH
AMARISTA
They don't watch much Dodger baseball in Boston, I'm guessing.
Here come the Giants.
Hard to believe A.J. had two CS the other day.
This has a flavor distinctly like last night's game.
Brandon Boat?
At least they're not making us wait til the 11th before falling apart.
So we are just leaving Tolleson out there to die?
Padres take the lead. All those wasted opportunities will come back to haunt us.
We really don't want to win this game.
C'mon Tolleson, limit the damage.
GIDP!
Nine outs to win it.
They can't be expected to score again.
One run is manageable.
I'll wait for the movie called Slip in the Slider.
BOXBURGER
I'm just going to sit here and yell last names.
I'll take a boxberger with a side of chili fries
Brad Boxberger is my hotel checkin alias.
Setting up the double play?
Four-pitch walk to A-Gon. DON'T PRESS, MATTY
They have that movie on loop at the Econolodge in Chowchilla, Paul.
...or so I'm told
Fuck!!!!
Yeah, thats about right.
Well, that royally sucked right there.
Makes it look so easy. Fucker.
Yeah, this is not going well.
Matt looks off. Did his bird's head fall off?
Guess that was the game right there.
And Hanley backwards K. Nut punch.
Hanley gets caught looking a ton.
We suck. Kemp robbed of a HR, and Hanley just stands there like a Beltran for a called strike three.
At least we have Cruz coming up next inning — oh, wait.
Ethier, PH, Ajellis. We got this.
(cries)
Beckett vs. Lincecum Friday. Should be...fun.
So can Ethier hit lefties, or is he totally helpless against them? We've seen both.
Oh good, Rivera. He'll save us.
Seems to hold his own against Starting LHP, LOOGYs not so much.
Oh, it's Abreu.
IS THAT RICK?
Bobby Abreu pulls a Hanley
Giants down b y four in the bottom of the ninth
Sax is in a salty mood tonight.
This team has used all of its luck up. We are toast
FUUUUUUUCKK
Just like yesterday: no hits in last four innings.
You think this is salty? Just wait until SoSG Fest III
Welcome to the Dark Side, Sax!
I want to put my head in a hello kitty tote bag
Padres about to score three in the ninth
s
200
DAMMIT
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Nice move Marla
That's ok, I'm not salty
FUCKKKKKK
I'm not allowed to be frivolous.
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